Professor Jin Chen, Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Director of the Research Center for Technological Innovation. He has long been dedicated to research in knowledge and innovation management, and is the originator of theories such as Holistic Innovation and Meaningful Innovation. Currently, he serves as Vice President of Chinese Management Science Society, Vice Chairman of Chinese Association for Science of Science and S&T Policy Research, and Committee Member of the International Schumpeter Society. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies, and International Journal of Innovation Studies, and the Area Editor of Technovation. Selected for the “Thinkers50” list of The World’S Most Influential Management Thinkers in 2021 and 2023, and consecutively named to Elsevier’s “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers” list from 2022 to 2025.
Dr. Gang Liu, Associate Professor at Business School, Shenzhen Technology University. His research interests include knowledge management and technical innovation. He is the Co-Editor in Chief of Management & Marketing and the Associate Editor of Knowledge Management Research and Practice, and the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies. He is the Program Chair of the International Conference on Innovation and Knowledge Management (iKM2025 &iKM2027) and the Mini-track Chair of the 25th, 26th, and 27th European Conference on Knowledge Management. He obtained an Excellent Paper Award from the 2024 Guangdong Social Science Annual Conference and the Most Download Paper Award (Top 10% downloaded paper in Knowledge and Process Management in 2022), Wiley, etc.
Professor W.B. Lee, Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre (now the Behaviour and Knowledge Engineering Research Centre) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Lee currently serves as Chairman of the Global MIKE Award Committee. He is the former President of the Hong Kong Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology, former Chairman of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (Hong Kong Branch), former Member of the Engineering Panel of the Research Grants Council, and former President of the Asian Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (ASPEN). He previously served as Editor-in-Chief of the VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems, Asia Editor of the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, and Editorial Board Member of the Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. He is also Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science. His research interests encompass advanced manufacturing technology, manufacturing strategy, and knowledge management. Professor Lee established the Digital Factory and Microsoft Enterprise Systems Centre in collaboration with Microsoft, launched Asia’s first online Master of Science in Knowledge Management programme, and pioneered the research and practical application of knowledge management across manufacturing, public utilities, and healthcare sectors.He is the author of Knowledge Risk and Its Mitigation (Emerald) and Future of Corporate Learning and Its Ecosystems (Springer).
